Press Releases - 2003

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 2, 2003 – PointBase, the leader in Java database products for managing and synchronizing enterprise data across all platforms , today announced the release of version 4.7 of its award-winning PointBase Embedded and PointBase Micro databases, and its bidirectional synchronization software, PointBase UniSync.

PointBase UniSync now extends the powerful filtering capabilities of the full-service PointBase Embedded database to PointBase Micro 4.7 installations in small-device environments such as PDAs. In addition, PointBase Embedded 4.7 implements new JDBC 3.0 interface features, continuing the company's policy of staying current with the evolving JDBC standard.

“Data mobility is in a state of rapid growth, making it even more important to adhere to governing standards while responding quickly and effectively to input from users,” said Bruce Scott, CEO of PointBase. “With a 36.5 percent compound annual growth rate in the mobile middleware market, predicted to reach $1.6 billion by 2007, database users require the rapid increases in performance levels, unparalleled efficiency in resource use and robustness continually demonstrated by the PointBase product suite.”

In PointBase UniSync for Micro, new JOIN filters allow users to easily express complex, multi-table relationships within data to be synchronized to or from a PC, PDA or other small device. By extending complex data handling capabilities to tiny devices, PointBase provides the means to continue the market's rapid movement toward standards-based data mobility and platform independence, without delays caused by overtaxing mobile resources.

In addition, server data stored in Organization Index tables in PointBase Embedded are now fully supported by UniSync. On the server side, the new table backup and restore capability greatly improves management of large databases by supporting single or multiple tables with high performance, page-level backup operations.

Performance improvements and enhanced database robustness and stability are further extended by a variety of technical enhancements to Client/Server configurations. Improved cardinality estimation allows the PointBase Embedded query optimizer to select better query plans. Improvements to the data page cache means higher performance, particularly for large data sets. In addition, behavior of parameters passed at start up has been fully documented and tightened.

The PointBase Product Family – PointBase 4.7 products include:

• PointBase Embedded -- A powerful, small-footprint, Java Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), ideal for embedding in Java applications that need a full-featured SQL product. Noted for its transparency to end users, PointBase Embedded offers true portability across all platforms, streamlined application deployment and integration, and automatic administration. It is a robust SQL product with a rich set of features including views, triggers, outer joins, security roles, referential integrity, Java stored procedures, distributed XA transactions and more.
• PointBase Micro -- A high-performance Java RDBMS that boasts an ultra-small footprint of 45K on J2ME™ MIDP, perfect for advanced Java-based mobile devices. Specifically designed for the J2SE™ and J2ME platforms, PointBase Micro supports a broad subset of the JDBC API. With its all-Java implementation, PointBase Micro opens the door for a wide variety of enterprise applications to run smoothly on today's growing number of mobile devices, eliminating the need for a constant wireless connection to enterprise database servers.
• PointBase UniSync – This database synchronization product easily synchronizes and maintains subset copies of master databases, utilizing newly supported JOIN filters, which allow applications to synchronize sets of tables without denormalization. PointBase UniSync provides bidirectional data synchronization between PointBase database products and also enterprise databases, such as Oracle® and Microsoft® SQL Server™. Enterprises can now extend the reach of their critical data through the PointBase solution, which includes such comprehensive synchronization features for distributed applications as filtering and conflict resolution.

For further information, visit PointBase at www.pointbase.com/pr47 or contact PointBase directly at 877-238-8798 ( U.S. and Canada ). Version 4.7 of all PointBase products can be downloaded for evaluation from the PointBase website at www.pointbase.com/products/downloads/.

About PointBase
PointBase is the leading provider of Java data management and synchronization products for the embedded database and data mobility markets. PointBase products are used in Java server applications and are also embedded within Java applications. The company's products are the preferred solution for Java mobile data applications found on laptops, PDA's and other mobile devices. Bruce Scott, part of the Oracle Corporation founding team and co-founder of Gupta/Centura Software, founded PointBase in 1998 with a management team that includes industry veterans from IBM, Hyperion and Oracle.

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